Windows 95 hangs on shutdown

[Mark Fearer]

Hello. Have a Dell laptop running Windows 95. During shutdown it hangs
at the screen "Please wait while Windows shuts down your computer". It
will shut down cleanly if there is a CDROM drive in the chassis and a
floppy drive a parallel port via cable. If the floppy is not there or
the floppy is in the chassis instead of the CD drive, the system hangs
on shutdown requiring a power cycle which requires scandisk to be run
on startup.
Is there a file somewhere in Windows 95 that remembers a configuration
during shutdown and checks for this configuration at future shutdowns?
If so, could this file be deleted and it would reproduce itself on the
next shutdown?

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[Arold Al Green]

I have a similar problem with a Dell laptop (Latitude CPi). It will
hang nearly every time if the CDROM drive is in the chassis. But, if
the floppy is there it shuts down correctly every time. A mystery so
far that Dell has not been able to solve.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Al Green

mfe...@mail.fearernet.com (Mark Fearer) wrote:

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